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State attorney Angela Corey responded by saying, “What the general public has to remember, and the media has to remember, is that there is a lot we cannot release by law.” Zimmerman’s lawyer also cautiously conceded that more evidence may be in prosecutorial hands, as yet unreleased to either him or the public.

I thought the process of discovery required the prosecutors to release all evidense to the defense - else, how can the defense do its job? Any leagal beagles able to enlighten me?

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-- I thought the process of discovery required the prosecutors to release all evidense to the defense - else, how can the defense do its job? --

O'Mara and Zimmerman get everything the state has, except the state's opinions and legal analyses. The public gets less than what O'Mara and Zimmerman do (but Zimmerman can make this material public too) in that anything in the nature of a "confession" is not a public record. So Zimmerman's interrogations and walk through are not public documents. They are not released to the public by the state, but they are given to Zimmerman.